Transform your land and your life...
Learn how to design a homestead that captures water, improves your soil and produces healthy organic food!
Permaculture and growing our own food is the solution to a lot of problems we face today - health issues, ecological crises, climate change and pollution. Learn how to reduce your water, energy and grocery bills while creating a delicious and edible landscape!
Permaculture stands for permanent agriculture or permanent culture and is a design approach for sustainable living and land use, rooted in the observation of natural systems.
If you want to be more self-reliant, grow your own, and create a sustainable future for yourself and your family, join Broken Ground for its Permaculture Homestead Series on two consecutive Saturdays, April 21 and April 28, 2018. Whether you have a balcony, a backyard or a 10-acre plot of land, permaculture empowers individuals to design a healthy and bountiful life that goes beyond sustainable.
Leave this class with a design of your homestead, all set for the growing season ahead!
Learn how to design a homestead that captures water, improves your soil and produces healthy organic food!
Permaculture and growing our own food is the solution to a lot of problems we face today - health issues, ecological crises, climate change and pollution. Learn how to reduce your water, energy and grocery bills while creating a delicious and edible landscape!
Permaculture stands for permanent agriculture or permanent culture and is a design approach for sustainable living and land use, rooted in the observation of natural systems.
If you want to be more self-reliant, grow your own, and create a sustainable future for yourself and your family, join Broken Ground for its Permaculture Homestead Series on two consecutive Saturdays, April 21 and April 28, 2018. Whether you have a balcony, a backyard or a 10-acre plot of land, permaculture empowers individuals to design a healthy and bountiful life that goes beyond sustainable.
Leave this class with a design of your homestead, all set for the growing season ahead!
The series is split up into four sessions over the course of two Saturdays:
Session I: Designing Your Permaculture Homestead
An introduction to the ethics and principles underlying permaculture. This session will give you a foundation for incorporating permaculture principles and practices into the design of not only your homestead but your life.
Session II: Start with the Soil
Healthy soil means healthy plants. Learn ways to cycle nutrients on your property, enhance natural systems and improve your soil through composting, compost teas, green manures, and growing your own biomass. This session covers traditional composting methods, vermiculture, and much more!
Session III: Capturing Water
Understanding water patterns and capturing water on your landscape is fundamental to a good permaculture homestead. This workshop will cover water harvesting techniques such as swales, rain gardens and rainbarrels and give examples of successes that have been achieved on properties across the world.
Session IV: Food Forests and Small Animals
Have your home-scale garden mimic a forest ecosystem with berries, fruit trees and edible perennials. Learn how to apply the principles of ecology to create an edible forest in your backyard. Then, learn how to incorporate small animals like chickens, ducks and rabbits into your homestead.
**Although it is most beneficial to take all four sessions, participants can also take individual sessions.
Series includes:
Session I: Designing Your Permaculture Homestead
An introduction to the ethics and principles underlying permaculture. This session will give you a foundation for incorporating permaculture principles and practices into the design of not only your homestead but your life.
Session II: Start with the Soil
Healthy soil means healthy plants. Learn ways to cycle nutrients on your property, enhance natural systems and improve your soil through composting, compost teas, green manures, and growing your own biomass. This session covers traditional composting methods, vermiculture, and much more!
Session III: Capturing Water
Understanding water patterns and capturing water on your landscape is fundamental to a good permaculture homestead. This workshop will cover water harvesting techniques such as swales, rain gardens and rainbarrels and give examples of successes that have been achieved on properties across the world.
Session IV: Food Forests and Small Animals
Have your home-scale garden mimic a forest ecosystem with berries, fruit trees and edible perennials. Learn how to apply the principles of ecology to create an edible forest in your backyard. Then, learn how to incorporate small animals like chickens, ducks and rabbits into your homestead.
**Although it is most beneficial to take all four sessions, participants can also take individual sessions.
Series includes:
- Hands-on activities - come prepared to get your hands dirty!
- Free handouts and resources
- Ongoing support through monthly gatherings and an online forum
Upcoming Dates:
This workshop will be held in Bozeman. Please register in advance. Directions and details will be emailed upon registration. Cost: $149 for the series, $45 for individual sessions.
This workshop will be held in Bozeman. Please register in advance. Directions and details will be emailed upon registration. Cost: $149 for the series, $45 for individual sessions.
- Stay tuned for our Spring 2019 schedule!
Testimonials
"What a great introduction to the underpinnings of permaculture along with hands on, go-home-and-use information to shape your own garden." - MP
"This was an incredible class. The information was clear, questions got the time they needed and some hands-on application was provided, I would recommend for anyone." - JB
"I love learning from Kareen because she knows her stuff, teaches with warm enthusiasm and engages me in new ideas. She really cares about permaculture principles and the best ways for us to coexist sustainably." - SH
"Though I grew up in gardens, and have made several myself, I came away from the Permaculture Design Series with an energizing way of looking at not just gardens, but the whole property. I had been putting some of the pieces together over the years, purely by chance, but now I understand much better how to deliberately design garden spaces that are healthier and a lot less work for me. " - GJ
"What a great introduction to the underpinnings of permaculture along with hands on, go-home-and-use information to shape your own garden." - MP
"This was an incredible class. The information was clear, questions got the time they needed and some hands-on application was provided, I would recommend for anyone." - JB
"I love learning from Kareen because she knows her stuff, teaches with warm enthusiasm and engages me in new ideas. She really cares about permaculture principles and the best ways for us to coexist sustainably." - SH
"Though I grew up in gardens, and have made several myself, I came away from the Permaculture Design Series with an energizing way of looking at not just gardens, but the whole property. I had been putting some of the pieces together over the years, purely by chance, but now I understand much better how to deliberately design garden spaces that are healthier and a lot less work for me. " - GJ